האמריקאים קונים את מעיל רוח במיליארד ש"ח -בניסוי שגרו 48 טילים ואת כולם המערכת ירטה

Trophy was initially planned for Merkava Mk4 tanks. A less expensive system developed by state-owned Israel Military Industries (IMI), known in Tel Aviv as Iron Fist, was initially developed to protect infantry deployed on Namer carriers and other armored vehicles.

The Merkava Mark IVm Windbreaker is a Merkava Mark IV equipped with the Trophy active protection system (APS), designated "Meil Ruach" (Hebrew: מעיל רוח‎‎; "Windbreaker" or "Wind Coat"). The serial production of Mark IVm tanks started in 2009 and the first whole brigade of Mark IVms was declared operational in 2011.

The Trophy APS successfully intercepted rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles, including 9M133 Kornets, fired by Hamas before and during Operation Protective Edge in 2014




On September 28, 2017 the U.S. Army announced that it would equip the M1A2 SEP V2 Abrams tanks of one of its armored brigades with Israeli-built Trophy Active Protection Systems (APS). Or to put it in plain speech: some of America’s 70-ton main battle tanks will now have radar-guided robotic shotguns that can shoot down incoming missiles.






US Army's Bassett on Trophy Active Protection Decision, AMPV, Future Vehicle Tech
Maj. Gen. David Bassett, US Army, the program executive officer for Army's ground combat vehicle programs, discusses the decision to equip a tank brigade with the Trophy active protection system by Leonardo DRS and RAFAEL, the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle by BAE Systems and how technologies developed for the now-defunct Ground Combat Vehicle program could be used in the future. Maj. Gen. David Bassett, US Army, the program executive officer for Army's ground combat vehicle programs, discusses the decision to equip a tank brigade with the Trophy active protection system by Leonardo DRS and RAFAEL, the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle by BAE Systems and how technologies developed for the now-defunct Ground Combat Vehicle program could be used in the future. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage of the 2017 AUSA gathering is sponsored by AM General, Elbit Systems of America, General Motors HydroTec, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.